Whilst the pace of eliminations in the Main Event has ground to a halt – it took over two and a half hours to go from 13 players to 12 – the opposite is true in the High Roller. So much so that the bubble has been and gone and the remaining players are in the money.
One of those at risk near the bubble was Team PokerStars Pro Jason Mericer, who tweeted about his double close to the pay outs.
In the money. It was a long bubble but finally over. Was all in 3 off the money with QQ vs A9 and held. Got 260k goin to 6/12 soon avg 357k
— Jason Mercier (@JasonMercier) August 26, 2014
Another Team Pro was not so lucky, Jake Cody busted eight from the money when his A♥ Q♥ was out gunned by Shaun Deeb’s pocket kings. Jean-Noel Thorel, Mark Teltscher and Marcin Wydrowski also fell close to the money. Wydrowski’s exit was particularly curel as his pocket tens had Mustapha Kanit’s pocket nines dominated until a nine appeared in the window.
We were now two off the bubble but it didn’t create a pause in the action, during this period Marc-Andre Ladouceur, Ihar Soika and Agshin Rasulov all got their chips in the middle and all survived. In the case of Rasulov he actually tripled up. Elsewhere Ruben Visser and George Danzer made hero calls with king high and ace high respectively, both were right.
Something had to give and the bubble was in effect when Vadim Markushevski shoved with K♣ Q♣ and couldn’t hit his over card against the pocket queens of Toby Lewis.
During hand for hand play Dan Smith and Jacob Ohlund both doubled up to survive before Dong Kim would be the unfortunate 56th place finisher. His seven big blind three-bet shove with jacks losing out to Ami Barer’s K♣ 9â™ when a king turned.
The celebratory tweets soon began:
Itm, woot. Time to spinnnnnn
— Niall Farrell (@Firaldo87poker) August 26, 2014
In het geld in 10k EPT Barca! 🙂 49 man over, 747k€ voor 1e!
— Ruben Visser (@rubenrtv) August 26, 2014
Play is set to continue until 16 players remain, it’s going to be a long night.
Follow all the action from the tournament floor on the main EPT Barcelona page. There’s hand-by-hand coverage in the panel at the top, including chip counts, and feature pieces below. Follow the action from the High Roller on the High Roller page. There’s also EPT Live, which is streaming action from Day 5 of the Main Event.
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